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...Washington last week the curtain rang down on a Sunday Meet the Press television show featuring the Republican vice presidential nominee, California's Senator Richard Nixon. After the show, Columnist Peter Edson, an old Washington hand who writes a column for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, approached Nixon. There had been a story "kicking around" ever since the Chicago convention, said Edson, to the effect that Nixon was getting financial assistance from a special fund set up by a group of wealthy Californians. Well, Nixon replied, the truth wasn't quite that way, but Edson could...
...Next day Edson telephoned Lawyer Smith. He got his facts, wrote his story, and N.E.A. airmailed it to 800 clients for release on the following Thursday. Wrote Edson: "Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Richard M. Nixon has been receiving an extra expense allowance from between 50 and 100 well-to-do Southern California political angels ever since he entered the Senate in 1951. Over the past two years these contributions have amounted to approximately...
...Millionaires' Club." Nobody got very excited about Edson's low-key account. Columnist Drew Pearson had been tipped on the same story and passed it up. But in Manhattan, on the same Thursday, the New Dealing New York Post, having come by the same story, broke out with high-key headlines: SECRET RICH MEN'S TRUST FUND KEEPS NIXON IN STYLE FAR BEYOND HIS SALARY. Tied to the headline was a Post "special" from Los Angeles, written by the Post's West Coast Correspondent Leo Katcher. For more than a month Katcher had been getting together...
After 2½ hours of tense work in the operating room of St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill., Surgeon Edson F. Fowler was just beginning to relax. He had removed part of the stomach of the Rev. James Cummings, 35, a Chicago priest, because of intractable ulcers. Everything had gone smoothly. But as Dr. Fowler was putting the last stitches in the patient's abdomen, there came a bang like that of a bursting tire, and a puff of smoke spewed out of the anesthesia machine. The explosion ripped open the anesthesia bag, and blew out the glass covers...
...steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When the demonstration was over, even such hard-to-please riflemen as Hatcher and Edson agreed that the U.S. had developed a first-rate new infantry weapon...